Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,499
I never was a fan of the lip sync challenge business
It can be bit corny, but generally you see actors/artists in a new really goofy and playful setting, bit amusing. For the real funny ones: Watch the ones with Paul Rudd(or Stephen Merchant). Also The hiphop history evolution marathon ones he does with Justin Timberlake, so on point :D Like that he gets this out of celebs, loosen up and dont take themselves too seriously, makes for more fun tv.


As a US talkshow in itself, I never really seen a full fallon episode, only these comedic challenges, dance offs/lipsynchs, he's not telivised in Sweden or interested me enough to try it (worst of all is Kimmel IMO). Prolly funniest talk show host is Ferguson though. But only american interview show I willingly go out of my way to watch is Jon Stewart, very on point dude.


P.S The brits are WAY BETTER at talk shows, case in point, watch a single episode of a Graham Norton show.
 

swag

L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,768
It can be bit corny, but generally you see actors/artists in a new really goofy and playful setting, bit amusing. For the real funny ones: Watch the ones with Paul Rudd(or Stephen Merchant). Also The hiphop history evolution marathon ones he does with Justin Timberlake, so on point :D Like that he gets this out of celebs, loosen up and dont take themselves too seriously, makes for more fun tv.
As I put it last year:
http://forum.juventuz.org/threads/21449-The-YouTube-Video-Junk-Thread?p=4547049#post4547049

What I don't like is that it's basically as if David Letterman did a "Stupid Celebrity Fake Talent Tricks" segment instead of a "Stupid Human Tricks" segment. What's actually done is kind of lame and asinine with only the gold star of a celebrity doing it supposedly being its great saving grace.

But since it doesn't elevate stupid party trick talent into something engendering real talent that only someone at the celebrity level could actually accomplish, these segments instead run like "Imagine if Super-Famous-Person X Did a Lame Cable Public Access TV Show".

"Let's watch Madonna peel potatoes. Wow. Now here's Jay-Z, and he's going to use a toilet brush. Wheeee. And here's Robert Deniro trying to imitate Barack Obama while drunk at a party. Hee haw." :lazy:
 

Völler

Always spot on
May 6, 2012
23,091
As I put it last year:
http://forum.juventuz.org/threads/21449-The-YouTube-Video-Junk-Thread?p=4547049#post4547049

What I don't like is that it's basically as if David Letterman did a "Stupid Celebrity Fake Talent Tricks" segment instead of a "Stupid Human Tricks" segment. What's actually done is kind of lame and asinine with only the gold star of a celebrity doing it supposedly being its great saving grace.

But since it doesn't elevate stupid party trick talent into something engendering real talent that only someone at the celebrity level could actually accomplish, these segments instead run like "Imagine if Super-Famous-Person X Did a Lame Cable Public Access TV Show".

"Let's watch Madonna peel potatoes. Wow. Now here's Jay-Z, and he's going to use a toilet brush. Wheeee. And here's Robert Deniro trying to imitate Barack Obama while drunk at a party. Hee haw." :lazy:
Spot on. Osman sucks.
 

swag

L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,768
Both suck. American "funny" talk shows are shite.
This.

I can never forget the horrors of when it was like SuperBowl 2 and Al Michaels kept playing up Jimmy Kimmel as one of the funniest guys on the planet and you just had to watch his new late night television show. Curiosity made me watch, and I immediately jabbed forks into my eyes to make the pain go away.

There have been some exceptions, but by and large the guy is an unfunny deck with occasional good writers but otherwise no talent.
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,499
Both suck. American "funny" talk shows are shite.
Watch Graham Norton :agree: Less forced and more at ease talk show conversationalists and generally funnier more natural sense of humour. Thats also why IMO the goofball Craig Ferguson is the best talk show host in the US for me. Cuz he isnt too scripted and doesnt put on a forced facade. Makes his guests come out of their shells.
 

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